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Friday, September 09, 2011

The Rachel Corrie Mafia

The National Building Museum will award Caterpillar Inc. the 2011 Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology during a ceremony September 14, 2011. The Turner Prize jury chose Caterpillar Inc. for its long history of innovation within the construction industry.

“Since the early days of the corporation, Caterpillar has consistently excelled in developing innovative products to meet the emerging technical and market challenges of the construction and mining industries,” stated Clyde Tatum, Henry C. Turner Prize jury member and Obayashi Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. “Their recent examples of increasing the sustainability and productivity of their products provide further evidence of their leadership.”

According to jury member Art Gensler, founder and chairman of the architectural firm bearing his name, Caterpillar has “taken American technology and know-how around the world.”

The museum's exact words were that it made this decision out of "an abundant concern for the safety of Museum staff and guests."

Which means that, implicitly or explicitly, the Museum was threatened.
It reasonably decided that a ceremony to honor an American success story should not be marred by ugly protests from people who have decided that Caterpillar represents evil.

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